Pleasure-railway.



No. 862,607. I PATENTED AUG. 6, 1907.

A. BRAGG.

PLEASURE RAILWAY.

APPLICATION TILED JAN. 2. 1907.

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Q-NQQ e No. 862,607. r v PATENTED AUG. 6, 1907.

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PLEASURE RAILWAY.

APPLICATION FILED JAILB. 1901.

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.. TiE 5 ARTHUR BRAGG, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

PLEASURE RAILWAY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 6, 1907.

Application filed January 2, 1907- Serial No. 350,450.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR BRAGG, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Pleasure-Railways; and Ido hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

- This invention relates to amusement devices and more particularly topleasure railways of the gravity type, and has for its object to providea railway including a novel arn ngement of track, such that a carpassing thereover will be given alternate forward and backward movementsthroughout a portion of the track, the car occupying the lower level ateach successive movement.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent from the followingdescription, and it is to be understood that I do not desire to belimited to the exact details of construction shown and described, forobvious modifications will occur to a person skilled in the art.

In the drawings forming a portion of this specification and in whichlike numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views,Figure 1 is a top plan view showing the present railway. Fig. 2 is afront elevation. Fig. 3 is a section taken transversely through thediagonal track section. Fig. 4: is an enlarged plan view showing theswitch.

Referring now to the drawings, the present invention comprises asupporting framework 5, upon which there is mounted the main trackportion 6, which, at a point 7, is slanted downwardly, as shown at 8,and then upwardly at a considerable slant, as shown at 9. A tracksection 10 joins the portions 8 and 9 at their union, extendingdownwardly in divergent relation to the portion 8 and in continuation ofthe portion 9, and this section 10 terminates in an abruptly inclinedportion 11. A rail section 12 joins the section 10 at its lowest point,which is the inner end of the portion 11, as will be understood, andslants downwardly and oppositely from the section 10 in parallelrelation to the portion 8 of the main track 6, this section 12 alsoterminating upwardly inclined portion 13. A track section 14 joins thesection 12 at the union of its downwardly and upwardly inclined portion,slanting oppositely to the portion 12 and diverging therefrom to lie ina vertical plane parallel with that of the section 10. There are thusprovided a plurality of oppositely extending downwardly slanted tracksections, terminating in upwardly inclined lower end portions, eachsection joiningits predecessor at its lowest point, the similarlyslanted sections lying in parallel vertical planes, as shown, and thisarrangement of track section may be continued to bring a car passingdownwardly thereover to any desired elevation below the main track 6.

Automatic switches 15 are provided at the unions of the several tracksections to direct a car passing downwardly over the upwardly inclinedend portion of one section on to the succeeding section. Thus, a carpassing downwardly over the portion 8 of the main track 6, will runupwardly over the portion 9 until its impetus is exhausted, when it willrun backward down this portion and bedirected by the correspondingswitch 15 on to the track section 10, down which it will pass to theportion 11 thereof, the upward incline of which will serve to stop thecar and start it in the opposite direction, when it will pass to thesection 12, and thus to the succeeding section, as will be readilyunderstood. The car is thus given a shuttle motion, as will be readilyseen.

As will be observed from the drawings, the several track sections form azigzag track including two series of rail sections A and B, the rails ofeach series being located one below another, and the rails of the twosections being oppositely slanted. As stated, the rails of the series Bconnect the ends of those of the series A, and vice versa. Upwardlyinclined spurs, which are the portions 9, 11 and 13, being located atthe meeting ends of these sections.

A car movable over the track is indicated at Z.

What is claimed is:

1. A railway comprising track sections arranged in parallel series. thesections of each series being disposed above one another in parallelism,and being inclined in a direction opposite to the sections of theopposing series, each of said track sections terminating at their lowerends in upwardlvslanted spurs and at their upper ends being curved tojoin the track section adjacent thereto at a point coinciding with thespur thereof, and switches interposed between the adjacent tracksections of said series and serving to direct a car from the spur of onesection to the upper end of the section adjacent thereto.

2. A railway comprising a plurality of track sections arranged inparallel series, the sections of each series being arranged one abovethe other in parallelism and extending at an incline in oppositedirections to the sections of the opposing series severally adjacentthereto, each of said track sections terminating at its lower end in anupwardly slanted spur approximating in pitch the inclination of thetrack section of the opposing series adjacent thereto, said last namedtrack section being curved at its upper end to join said spur, and anautomatic switch provided between said spurs and the upper end of thetrack section adjacent thereto.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature, in presence of twowitnesses.

ARTHUR BRAGG.

Witnesses WILLIAM C. CHANDLER, Einn Wonn'rn.

